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You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

Larry Ellison

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Larry Ellison
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 17
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Businessman
Computer Scientist
Entrepreneur
The Bronx
New York City
Lawrence Joseph Ellison
Lawrence Ellison
Lawrence J. Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Larry Ellison
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I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.
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The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.
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The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.
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When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, I'm right, and everyone else is wrong. That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.
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Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.
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I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.
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We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.
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Five years from now, I don't know how I'll think.
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All you can do is all you can do.
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I have had all the disadvantages required for success.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.
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Winning is not enough. All others must lose.
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I hate the PC, with a passion.
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Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.
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If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation this is the end of innovation.
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Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.
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